AGARTALA, Oct 21 (TIWN): Instead of diminishing the water logging problem, per monsoon the situation is turning critical as the rain water had paralyzed capital city Agartala.

With few hours of rain, the whole Agartala City is flooding on Saturday and the common people are unable to return from offices due to the waterlogging here.  

The water-logging is nothing but a reflection of the corruption indulged by AMC in last few years.
During the Budget counter speech held on June 30, 2016, AMC Mayor Prafullajit Sinha placed vivid explanation about the expenditure from 2015 to 2016 and also placed the budget for the year 2016-17. During the budget counter speech he talked about various projects ongoing and also completed project among which Mayor claimed about the almost completion of JNNURM’s (Jawharlal Nehru Urban Development Mission) Rs. 102.22 crores, which was sanctioned for Storm Water Drainage system.

But in reality there is no sign of proper drainage yet arranged in Agartala city. With a few splash of rain the city dupes into water and water logging till waist, is very common for Agartala City.

Whereas West Bengal, Andra Pradesh, Gujrat, Maharasthra have completed the project long back in the year 2012, Tripura is suffering from water logging condition after every rain-splash.

 But surprisingly, in AMC Budget it has been shown that in the year 2015-16 the work has been completed almost.

As per the central provided project, the major components of the project  includes construction of storm Water Drainage system consisting of construction of brick masonry surface drains with desalting of the existing outfall.

 After implementation of this project the aim was removal of water logged areas during monsoon season but Agartala City’s condition has been remained as it is.